Fuck AI

It’s not lost on me that they gave her the surname of “Monet” to muddy the waters around Janelle Monet, an R&B artist so deserving that even I know her name

Wtf does "number one most added at a US radio format" mean? It seems completely nonsensical.

AI generated artist

No

It's not an artist, it's a computer program. More to the point, it's a distance measuring type database whose input was the hard work, sweat and tears from real human beings and whose output is a mix of that but lower quality

There is nothing new, nothing inspiring, nothing renewing, it's just as if they took all historical songs and tusees them in a blender and still filtered out the best bits that were left.

There is no singer that can awe you with her extreme vocal range, there is nothing that can touch you on your heart. This is pure ones and zeroes at work, all directed by some asshole who used some mathematical algorithms to figure out what sounds should be combined to make as much money as possible.

That is the crux of it: real artists work hard and mostly starve whilst giving you something from the heart. Managers and record companies would then make money off that (and keep most of it anyway). Now it's just the money makers and they can tune everything just to be the perfect money printer machine.

Over time, expect much, MUCH more of this and yes, real artists will likely mostly disappear because as always, a small group of people like us will protest this and reject it, but the big masses will just lap it up anyways

All genres are infested with AI generated slop. This is not a race thing or whatever he’s claiming. Did he forget that a couple of months ago the ai rock band Velvet Sundown with fake white dudes was all over the news. Or does it only matter to him when it affects black artists?

Companies are free to pump as much money into slop pipelines, and I am also free to ignore and block their shit wherever I can. In fact, this only gives me an incentive to support live venues and local performers.

Who's claiming R&B isn't profitable? Is there a famous quote or some context I'm missing?

Country isn't ready for this

Not even close to the first Suno-generated "artist" to do well on streaming and this one was generated by a black woman so I'm not sure what it has to do with the industry being racist

Good example of someone who wasn't paying attention to an issue until it affected them

The first AI band that I was aware of was The Velvet Sundown, which made the news for doing well on Spotify before people realised that they weren‘t real. They‘re very MOR AOR type stuff, at least from what I‘ve heard.

Slop. Any company that throws slop at us like this should be remembered.

Remember payola in the radio business? Pepperidge farm remembers

Here is the song if anyone is interested : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nWRysTT_PF0&t=73s&pp=2AFJkAIB

Not really my style but it feels like a bunch of tropes rolled into one. Shame because AI can kind of let you push boundaries but this is musically and lyrically just very tame. Simply boring imo.